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Workers in front of Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston, Mass., June 1925

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1925-06

Location Note

Property Files: HGO House

GUSN

GUSN-225397

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Description

A group of workers pose in front of the Harrison Gray Otis House in preparation for the widening of Cambridge Street. Jim McCool (middle of front row), foreman for Isaac Blair & Co., the move contractor, is shown in the middle of the front row.

Details

Descriptive Terms

labor
construction workers
construction (assembling)
men (male humans)
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Additional Identification Number

Negative number 8097-A

Physical Description

1 photographic print : black-and-white

Collection Code

PC006

Collection Name

Historic New England properties photographic collection

Reference Code

PC006.HGO.01.011

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947 (Photographer)

Material Type

photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)

Other People

McCool, Jim

Other Organizations

Isaac Blair & Co., Inc. (South Boston, Mass.)

Subjects

Historic New England properties
Cambridge Street (Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Property Files: HGO House

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